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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2013</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-992-8</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2013</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-993-5</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">29.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"Eoin F. Cannon, head speechwriter for Boston's mayor, Martin J. Walsh, is former lecturer and assistant director of Studies for History and Literature at Harvard."</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Cannon, Eoin F.&quot;</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-pubdate-ebook field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Pub date (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">December, 2013</span></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture&quot;</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-61376-272-1</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A fresh look at the roles that recovery stories have played in American culture</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-toc field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Preface and Acknowledgments . . . xi<br /><br />Introduction<br />Addiction Recovery and the World as It Should Be . . . 1<br /><br />Part I<br />Redemption and Ideology<br /><br />1. The Drunkard’s Conversion and the Salvation of the Social Order . . . 23<br />2. “What a Radical Found in Water Street” . . . 52<br />3. The Varieties of Conversion Polemic . . . 83<br />4. New Deal Individualism and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous . . . 115<br /><br />Part II<br />Literature and Recovery<br /><br />5. Literary Realism and the Secularization of the Drunkard’s Conversion . . . 155<br />6. The Drinker’s Epiphany in Modernist Literature . . . 177<br />7. The Iceman Cometh and the Drama of Disillusion . . . 200<br />8. Recovery Memoir and the Crack-Up of Liberalism . . . 223<br /><br />Conclusion<br />Addiction in a New Era of Recovery . . . 248<br /><br />Notes . . . 263<br />Index . . . 311</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (e-book) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">80</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9781558499928.jpg?itok=jnlKyGcD" width="67" height="100" alt="" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Since the middle of the nineteenth century, sobriety movements have flourished in America during periods of social and economic crisis. From the boisterous working-class temperance meetings of the 1840s to the quiet beginnings of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s, alcoholics have banded together for mutual support.Since the middle of the nineteenth century, sobriety movements have flourished in America during periods of social and economic crisis.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 05/02/2013</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"<i>The Saloon and the Mission</i> offers a unique contribution for historians of numerous specialties (cultural, literary, religious) as well as those specializing in alcohol or drug studies. I know of no other work that offers such a sweeping synthesis of the evolution of the addiction recovery narrative and how it emerged from and has evolved within particular historical contexts.—William L. White, author of <i>Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America</i><br /><br />""I wish to recommend a relatively new book to AA History Lovers. Eoin F. Cannon's <i>The Saloon and the Mission: Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture</i> devotes only one chapter directly to Alcoholics Anonymous, but it richly surveys the context out of which A.A. came into being. More importantly, in my opinion, the book analyzes the contexts within which A.A. developed as the twentieth century unfolded. I find it richly useful in coming to an understanding of A.A.'s full historical significance.""—Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D., author of <i>Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous</i> and, with Katherine Ketcham,<i> The Spirituality of Imperfection</i><br /><br />""Cannon . . . traces the various ways in which the conversion/recovery narrative structure was used, for example, in Upton Sinclair's <i>The Jungle</i>, Jon Dos Passos's <i>Manhattan Transfer</i>, Djuna Barnes's <i>Nightwood</i>, and Eugene O'Neill's <i>The Iceman Cometh</i>, all of which explore the possibility of resituating the isolated, addicted individual in a meaningful social world. This is a fresh approach to familiar concepts--evangelical Christianity, alcoholism, individualism, and liberalism. Recommended.""—<i>Choice</i><br /><br />""Any historian interested in the idea of the 'social' in social psychology will find much to consider here, for with each chapter there is added clearer documentation of small groups and their affective power than one may find elsewhere.""—<i>Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences</i><br /><br />""The book truly shines when Cannon turns his attention to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fundamentally important and often-overlooked part of America's continued discourse over alcohol and its place in the nation's history. His discussion of how AA members came to understand in the 1940s that people could have sober relationships with one another is excellent. By weaving these various strands together, including appropriate discussions of gender, class, and even socialism, Cannon has crafted a stimulating account about how those soggy with drink came to dry out.""—<i>Journal of American History</i><br /><br />""This book is a cultural history happily married to literature. An excellent, difficult book.""—<i>The Historian</i><br /><br />""A masterful genealogy of the influence of the alcoholic's recovery narrative. . . . Thorough, well-researched, and remarkably comprehensive, Cannon's book is valuable as both a resource and a font of critical wisdom in its own right. Cannon's work helps us see how the possibility of redemption is always both individual and social, making it a profound and powerful epistemological lens indeed.""—<i>American Literary History Online Review</i>"</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-trim field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 x 9</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">328</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-illustrations field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">8 b&amp;w</div></div></div>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:58:39 +0000Anonymous1768 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressThe White Logichttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/white-logic
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November, 1994</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-0-87023-931-1</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November, 1994</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-0-87023-944-1</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John W. Crowley is professor of English at Syracuse University. He is editor of <i>New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio</i> and of Roger Austen's <i>Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard</i>, a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist. Crowley is author of <i>The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells</i> and <i>The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells</i>.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Crowley, John W.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9780870239441.jpg?itok=H8oU8fXL" width="65" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The first extended literary analysis to take account of recent work by social historians on the temperance movement, this book examines the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the twentieth century. In explaining the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, Crowley focuses on representative fictions by W. D. Howells (<i>The Landlord at Lion's Head</i>), Jack London (<i>John Barleycorn</i>), Ernest Hemingway (<i>The Sun Also Rises</i>), F.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John W. Crowley</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/white-logic" st_title="The White Logic" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 11/16/1994</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"An engrossing account of several major American novels and their alcoholic writers. Crowley's account of <i>Tender Is the Night</i> and <i>Appointment in Samarra</i> are, by far, the best to date."—Tom Dardis, author of <i>The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer</i><br /><br />"An excellent study of modernist American fiction from the perspective of American drinking practices and addiction theory. Crowley mixes biography, literary reading, and social and cultural history into a very smooth cocktail, and the result is illuminating and invigorating."—Marty Roth, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/37">Women&#039;s Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">216</div></div></div>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:38:39 +0000Anonymous1908 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressHungry Hillhttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/hungry-hill
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2007</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-588-3</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2007</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-589-0</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">21.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">An award-winning playwright, Carole O'Malley Gaunt lives with her husband in New York City and Sag Harbor. She is the mother of three daughters.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Gaunt, Carole O&#039;Malley.</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-pubdate-ebook field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Pub date (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">February, 2013</span></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A Memoir</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-61376-246-2</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/gaunt_300.jpg?itok=XVJ2s1II" width="66" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (e-book) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">15.99</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On a sweltering June night in 1959, Betty O'Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children—seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. In this poignant memoir, she recalls in vivid detail the chaotic course of her family life over the next four years.<br /></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Carole O&#039;Malley Gaunt</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/hungry-hill" st_title="Hungry Hill" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 05/09/2007</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"This book should be placed in time capsules in Springfield , Mass. , and all across the country. It's more than a memoir. It's a social document, a story of a family, a document on the human heart. Since this is an Irish-American family the ingredients are almost predictable: nuns, priests, sacraments —and the battle with the bottle. What makes this book different is Carole Gaunt's wise prose. She writes with such compassion and understanding you'll look at your own family the same way."—Frank McCourt , author of <i>Angela's Ashes</i> and <i>Teacher Man</i><br /><br />"<i>Hungry Hill</i> is engaging and memorable. . . . One of the most endearing aspects of the book is its lack of guile and its feeling of authenticity—it glows with honesty."—Madeleine Blais, author of <i>Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family</i><br /><br />"Maybe the only thing stranger than the pain families inflict upon one another is the fact that one survives it. Carole Gaunt has made a beautiful story of all that, without a false note, a word wasted, or a flinch. One is grateful for this memoir and for the author who, as a child, kept her eyes open."—Roger Rosenblatt, author of <i>Lapham Rising: A Novel</i><br /><br />"A vivid portrait of the transgenerational effects of alcoholism and a courageous response to the disease. . . . The book captures the essence of the isolation, fear, and sadness of a girl who, instead of having a childhood, lived a dilemma—doing all the right things, being a good girl who realizes that everything she does she does alone or under an umbrella of shame and wishful thinking, living in a home overshadowed by the effects of alcoholism from one generation to the next."—Maureen McGlame, director, COASA (Children of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse), Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps<br /><br />"To paraphrase Tolstoy, ‘Happy families are all alike, but every alcoholic family is unhappy in its own way.' In this powerful memoir, Carole Gaunt writes of being the only girl in a family with seven brothers and an alcoholic father, following the early death of her mother. For those of us who also grew up around alcoholism, her story and insights are poignant and involving. . . . Reading about the author seeking out jobs so she would never have to ask her stepmother for money gave me a feeling of measured triumph in how the small choices an individual makes can lead the way out of family traps; looking for those jobs and deciding to look to herself for stability rather than to the crazy adults around her was the beginning of health. But the book also shows how dysfunctional families rob their children of trust and innocence way too soon, and how that haunts them in their later years. A moving story."—Christopher Durang, author of <i>Christopher Durang: 27 Short Plays</i><br /><br />"This gripping memoir by playwright Carole O’Malley Gaunt is . . . extremely well-written as the author spent her childhood as a mother to her ailing mother, her brothers, and her father. No reader will remain dry-eyed with this sensitive account of growing up as the designated mom."—Harriet Klausner, <i>Midwest Book Review</i><br /><br />"Among the many scenes that Gaunt recalls vividly from those years growing up in Hungry Hill, an Irish-American neighborhood in Springfield, Mass., is one of a priest administering last rites to her mother. The loss of her mother, whom Gaunt hadn’t been told was dying, was life-altering, for it immediately saddled the teenager with heavy adult responsibilities. With a touch of humor and a sense of pride, Gaunt recounts the strain of trying to mother her seven unruly brothers, one of them only two years old. Her hard-drinking father, who calls her 'a tough cookie,' seems indifferent to her emotional needs: In an especially insensitive move, he has the family doctor inform her of his upcoming wedding. Gaunt depicts her new stepmother, Mary, as a hot-tempered hypochondriac whose love for parties abets the father’s already serious addiction to what he calls “Irish medicine.” When he dies, Mary, now the caretaker of his brood of eight, blackmails the children into meeting her behavior standards by threatening to walk out on them. Not only does the author write movingly of her dysfunctional family life, she provides an achingly honest picture of a teenager hungrily seeking at school the approval she does not receive at home. Although her father had told her that college was only for boys, in the end she escapes Hungry Hill by making her own way to university. Gaunt, now a playwright, has interspersed in the memoir six playlets featuring herself as an adult. The three in which she confronts her father are imaginary scenes demonstrating what she would have liked him to know, but the others—a sorrowful visit to her mother’s grave, a compassionate, sadly disjointed talk with her heavily medicated stepmother in a nursing home and a revealing phone call to one of her brothers—appear to be real events. The many full conversations are not transcripts of actual dialogue, yet they have the ring of truth—as do all these recollections of the loneliness of a girl growing up first without a mother and then without a father."—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br /><br />"Heat Wave: the summer’s best books sizzle with glamorous women, intrepid adventurers, and family secrets . . .Those with an appetite for personal history will be gratified by <i>Hungry Hill: A Memoir</i> (University of Massachusetts Press), Carole O’Malley Gaunt’s moving account of her mother’s death, her father’s alcoholism, and growing up with seven brothers in sixties Springfield, Massachusetts."—<i>Vogue</i><br /><br />"Gaunt, the only girl of eight O'Malley children, breaks the silence of an alcoholic's daughter in this remarkably moving memoir, which begins when her mother dies of cancer in 1959. Carole, 13, feels responsible for her younger brothers, while her father, who increasingly turns to drink, does little to help. Unable to cope, he burdens his daughter with adult tasks, from leaving her alone with the priest as he administers the last rites to her mother to telling Carole to hold the fort and sending her off with a credit card to buy the new family sofa. Gaunt describes the often humorous details of her Catholic high-school days, but hidden among the good grades, disappointing cheerleader tryouts, and writing awards is the sad lack of her father's attention to anything she does, meritorious or otherwise. The siblings know his whiskey bottle is ever present, but they don't recognize his alcoholism until shortly before he drinks himself to death at age 47. Gaunt's poignant story is undoubtedly not unique, but it is a family history deftly, candidly told."—<i>Booklist</i><br /><br />"Carole O'Malley Gaunt tells her story unblinkingly, without sentiment, leavened with humor and humanity."—Tom Shea, <i>The Republican</i><br /><br />"Playwright Gaunt was 13 when her father went out one morning to do errands with her seven brothers in the family car. He told her to let the priest in, if he knocked—neglecting to mention that the priest was coming to administer Last Rites to her dying mother. After the funeral, her father told her that since she was so tough, he'd rely on her to look after her brothers. This being 1959, no one discussed her mother's cancer or her father's alcoholism. Still, Gaunt already understood how her father's behavior changed after a few drinks, how his hangovers became more and more debilitating. Before long, he found another woman to marry. He knew the stepmother slapped his children too freely, that she was emotionally erratic, but he enjoyed having an adult drinking companion. When alcohol made a widow of the nasty stepmother, Gaunt and her brothers endured a few more years of her unpleasantness before they were old enough to escape their loveless home. The saddest part of Gaunt's story is her feeling that she spent her youth parenting her brothers and her irresponsible father: I was always a mother, never a daughter. In the end, Gaunt has written a poignant, heart-wrenching memoir."—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/13">Autobiography</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">304</div></div></div>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:28:32 +0000Anonymous1087 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressInventing the Addicthttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/inventing-addict
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November, 2008</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-679-8</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November, 2008</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-680-4</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">35.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"Susan Zieger is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside."</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Zieger, Susan.&quot;</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-pubdate-ebook field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Pub date (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October, 2008</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-61376-180-9</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature&quot;</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (e-book) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">98</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/zieger_300.jpg?itok=-gARi7H2" width="63" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The notion of addiction has always conjured first-person stories, often beginning with an insidious seduction, followed by compulsion and despair, culminating in recovery and tentative hope for the future. We are all familiar with this form of individual life arrative, Susan Zieger observes, but we know far less about its history. “Addict” was not an available identity until the end of the nineteenth century, when a modernizing medical establishment and burgeoning culture of consumption updated the figure of the sinful drunkard popularized by the temperance movement.<br /></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Susan Zieger</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/inventing-addict" st_title="Inventing the Addict" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 11/12/2008</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/58">American Literature</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"<i>Inventing the Addict</i> is full of excellent things. It not only makes an important contribution to the field of addiction studies and many other areas of present interest in cultural, social, and material studies, it also functions partly as a summary and synthesis of much current work in nineteenth-century civilization.—Marty Roth, author of <i>Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication</i><br /><br />""<i>Inventing the Addict</i> is a richly contextualized and elegantly nuanced cultural history of the concept of addiction. Susan Zieger shows how literary critical analysis offers particular insight not only into the power of language and narrative to shape public perceptions, but also into the complex social construction of ostensibly medical problems.""—Priscilla Wald, author of <i>Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative</i><br /><br />""An important book for both Americanists and students of Victorian Britain, <i>Inventing the Addict</i> traces the historical development of the idea of addiction as a specific complication of the history of subjectivity in the nineteenth-century. Zieger organizes her study around the main metaphors for the developing concept of addiction and thereby brings the literary and non-literary works she analyzes into close alignment on a formal plane.""—Catherine Gallagher, author of <i>The Body Economic: Life, Death and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel</i><br /><br />""A compelling and wide-ranging investigation into drugs, race, and sexuality as they are represented in nineteenth-century American writings. An important book for Americanists. . . . Demonstrates how the addict became slave-masters and drunkards. The merging of ideas and themes in both literacy and non-literary works offers powerful representations of the social and cultural experiences of the period, and excellent notes supplement this fascinating study.""—<i>The Year's Work in English Studies</i><br /><br />""This book is filled with critical insights and buttressed by wide reading in primary and secondary sources.""—<i>Victorian Studies</i>"</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-trim field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 x 9</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">360</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:22:09 +0000Anonymous1146 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressThe Secret Leprosy of Modern Dayshttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/secret-leprosy-modern-days
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2007</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-565-4</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2007</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-566-1</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Timothy A. Hickman is lecturer in history at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Hickman, Timothy A.&quot;</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-pubdate-ebook field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Pub date (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2007</span></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">&quot;Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920&quot;</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (e-book):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-61376-107-6</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A cultural history of the concept of addiction</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/hickman_300.jpg?itok=9rvSpJxT" width="65" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-ebook field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (e-book) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">80</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of "drug addiction" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a half later, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being "addicted" to just about anything. Yet as Timothy A.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Timothy A. Hickman</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/secret-leprosy-modern-days" st_title="The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 05/31/2007</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"Hickman does a terrific job of positioning narcotic intoxication in relation to abolitionist thought, temperance, and nervousness. . . .These are themes that always exist in awkward relation with the drug literature, which tends toward narrower dualisms—vice versus disease, criminal versus medical, and so on. Hickman draws us beyond those dualisms and situates drugs in a much more complicated, but interesting, context.—Joseph F. Spillane, author of <i>Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884–1920</i><br /><br />""The book's strengths lie in the variety of cultural commentators on which Hickman draws in each chapter, his straightforward writing style, his clear organizational structure and the subtlety of his arguments concerning addiction's double meanings.""—<i>Journal of American History</i><br /><br />""Timothy Hickman has written a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship that examines the history of addiction as a social and cultural phenomenon. Hickman’s work pushes the study of addiction in an important new direction . . . Hickman’s work offers both interesting interpretations of key text and fresh insights on the attitudes of drug reformers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; if taken seriously, it also promises to move the field toward the fundamental question of what it meant to be modern.""—<i>Journal of the History of Medicine</i>"</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">208</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:21:42 +0000Anonymous1089 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressAltering American Consciousnesshttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/altering-american-consciousness
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April, 2004</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-424-4</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April, 2004</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-425-1</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sarah W. Tracy is assistant professor of honors and the history of medicine at the University of Oklahoma and author of the forthcoming <i>From Vice to Disease: Alcoholism in America, 1870–1920. </i>Caroline Jean Acker is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of <i>Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control.</i></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">29.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tracy, Sarah W., and Caroline J. Acker, eds.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Explores the changing perception and use of drugs in American culture</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/default_images/um_press_default_cover_0.jpg?itok=mE80JCdm" alt="" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Virtually every American alive has at some point consumed at least one, and very likely more, consciousness altering drug. Even those who actively eschew alcohol, tobacco, and coffee cannot easily avoid the full range of psychoactive substances pervading the culture.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">edited by Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline J. Acker</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/altering-american-consciousness" st_title="Altering American Consciousness" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 04/21/2004</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"This is a terrific book. Not only do the essays stand well on their own, but these pieces interact in very exciting and suggestive ways, giving the volume the feel of an integrated study. This is a <i>major</i> contribution."—John W. Crowley, author of <i>The White Logic: <br /><br />Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction</i><br /><br />"Greatly enriches our understanding of the history of drug use in America, with particular reference to the ways that changing social attitudes intersect with legal, medical, and political aspects of addiction. . . . A welcome addition to the field.""—Nicholas O. Warner, author of <i>Spirits of America:<br /><br />Intoxication in Nineteenth-Century American Literature</i><br /><br />"This delightful volume represents a careful admixture of skillfully edited, high-quality, and richly documented contributions to the analytic history of American experiences with alcohol and drugs. The scope of the collection is expansive. Unlike many conference-based volumes, this one succeeds in getting the authors to engage with each other in ways that build coherence and resonance. . . . Overall, this volume helps constitute a convivial and cross-generational conversation."—<i>The Journal of the History of Medicine</i><br /><br />"In an age of uncertainty for drug science and drug policy, that makes <i>Altering American Consciousness</i> a must read."—<i>The Journal of American History</i><br /><br />"This edited volume started life as a set of conference papers, delivered in 1997, on the subject of the history of drug use in American society. Out of this has grown a book that aims to sweep across the geography and the history of American to offer an informed view of changing attitudes and responses to drug use. . . . this is a readable and enjoyable text."—<i>Criminal Justice Review</i><br /><br />"In a very comprehensive manner it deals with the way that the society in America has dealt with a wide range of drugs, including alcohol. . . . Despite its American basis I would strongly recommend this book, particularly in relation to the concepts of societies attitudes to readers in the United Kingdom."—<i>Alcohol and Alcoholism</i><br /><br />"This book is a salutary complement to the flood of alarmist diatribes about the need for a revitalized "war on drugs" to save the nation from decay and to the well-meaning but tired pleas for greater personal freedom and expression. There are no shrill polemics here and no pretentious proposals for tougher laws or less stringent policies. What the reader will find are interesting snapshots of an erratic historical trajectory that shows how the social context matters more than biochemistry or pharmacology when it comes to shaping how people feel, not only about drugs and those who use them, but even about what it is that we call "drugs" and why. It is evident that alcohol and drugs have a long and colorful history in the United States, as well as around the world, with patterns of use, attitudes, and even scientific interpretations and pronouncements that have varied widely over time. In this book, 14 authors write about different aspects of such changes during the past 200 years. They demonstrate novel approaches, fresh interpretations, and realistic implications, with chapter subjects as diverse as professionalism among physicians, language and "problem-definition," the status of Native Americans, sex differences, religion, LSD, and successive fads in the cessation of smoking. Each essay is enjoyable as well as informative, clear, well organized, and self-contained, with end notes and an ample bibliography. The introduction shows how the essays relate to one another and to the theme of the title."—<i>New England Journal of Medicine</i></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/5">American History</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">160</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:20:56 +0000Anonymous987 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressDrunkard's Refugehttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/drunkards-refuge
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">January, 2004</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-430-5</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John W. Crowley is professor of English at the University of Alabama. His books include <i>The White Logic: Alcoholism</i> and <i>Gender in American Modernist Fiction. </i>William White is senior research consultant at Chestnut Health Systems in Bloomington, Illinois. He is author of <i>Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America.</i></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Crowley, John W., and William L. White.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Lessons of the New York State Inebriate Asylum</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A history of the original alcohol rehab center and its colorful founder</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9781558494305.jpg?itok=moALnI57" width="67" height="100" alt="" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Opened during the Civil War in 1864, the New York State Inebriate Asylum in Binghamton was the first medically directed addiction treatment center in the United States. In this book, John W. Crowley and William White provide a lively account of this pioneering facility and its charismatic founder, Dr. Joseph Edward Turner. Based on Turner's recently rediscovered papers, the story is one of plots and intrigues, charges and countercharges, criminal accusations and indictments, and the plundering of a historic institution. <br /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John W. Crowley and William L. White</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/drunkards-refuge" st_title="Drunkard&#039;s Refuge" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 01/07/2004</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"Significantly informs the field and should be a resource for the lay and professional community as it continues to address the issues of alcohol and drug dependence in the United States."—Stacia Murphy, president, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence<br /><br />"A compelling case study of the attempt to create what we would call today an alcoholism recovery center. The product of two of the most distinguished scholars in the field of addiction studies, the book's importance lies in the fact that the Inebriate Asylum was the first institution of its kind in America and the material relating to its rise and fall is both vivid and intriguing."—W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College<br /><br />"For those who seek to understand treatment institutions and their conceptual underpinnings, Drunkard's Refuge is an illuminating microcosm, a universe seen in a grain of sand. It's also a good read, without a dull chapter. Recommended."—<i>LifeRing</i><br /><br />"This important account of the beginning of medically directed residential treatment centers effectively examines the ambivalences of attitudes toward alcoholism and drug addiction that still divide the field."—<i>The Journal of American History</i><br /><br />"Effectively examines the ambivalences of attitudes toward alcoholism and drug addiction that still divide the field."—Sarah C. Sitton</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/5">American History</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">160</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:20:52 +0000Anonymous975 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressBill W. and Mr. Wilsonhttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bill-w-and-mr-wilson
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May, 2000</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-245-5</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April, 2002</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-360-5</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Matthew J. Raphael is a well-established writer and a member of AA.</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Raphael, Matthew J.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Legend and Life of A.A.&#039;s Cofounder</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tagline field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A compelling cultural biography of the man who launched the twelve-step movement</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9781558492455.jpg?itok=hfKyxpx5" width="63" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>William Griffith Wilson, recently cited by <i>Time</i> magazine as one of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century, is better known to many as Bill W., cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In <i>Bill W. and Mr. Wilson</i>, Matthew J. Raphael, himself a member of A.A. (and writing here under a pseudonym, in accord with AA's tradition of anonymity), presents a revealing new look at both the legendary Bill W. and the private Mr.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Matthew J. Raphael</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/bill-w-and-mr-wilson" st_title="Bill W. and Mr. Wilson" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tue, 04/30/2002</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"Raphael's complex final judgment of Bill W., and implicitly of A.A. itself, is more than earned by the care and the verve of all that comes before it in this now indispensable book."—<i>Dionysos: Journal of Literature and Addiction</i><br /><br />"This exceptionally well-written book on the life of A.A.’s cofounder will deservedly find a wide readership. It is time that the man inside the legend of Bill Wilson was rediscovered. <i>Bill W. and Mr. Wilson</i> achieves that feat."—author of <i>Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America</i><br /><br />"This biography respectfully attempts to pull Bill W. down from his mythical pedestal. Drawing from both primary and major secondary sources, Raphael critically reconsiders what we think we know about the man who started a therapeutic revolution."—<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />"This is the best work I have read on Bill Wilson; it is also one the best introductions to AA—its origins, development, and significance."—Roger Forseth, founding editor of <i>Dionysos: Journal of Literature and Addiction</i><br /><br />"Raphael not only interprets the 'big' books about the AA movement and its two founders (Dr. Bob as well as Bill W.), he has also read all the recent scholarship on the subject and uses it scrupulously and judiciously in the formulation of his own views. I think Raphael's book will become the starting point for any subsequent scholarship and/or discussion of the subject."—Deirdre Bair, author of <i>Anais Nin: A Biography</i><br /><br />""[I]n a hotel then known as Wilson House I was born, perhaps rightly, in a room just back of the old bar," writes Wilson (1895-1970), cofounder and organizer of Alcoholics Anonymous, in this first published edition of an autobiography he began in 1954. Telling one's story is an important AA tradition. Bill W., as Wilson was known in AA circles, had a reputation for being a good storyteller and had previously recounted much of his life in the Big Book (also titled Alcoholics Anonymous) and other writings. Here, Wilson tells of his childhood, military service, marriage, attempts to stop drinking, and spiritual conversion in 1934 but stops short of his historic meeting with cofounder Dr. Bob. The publisher has added articles, appendixes, and recollections of friends, family, and colleagues to flesh out Wilson's fragmented account. In contrast to Francis Hartigan's recent conventional but comprehensive biography, Bill W. (LJ 2/1/00), Bill W. and Mr. Wilson offers an outsider's "personal impressions and ruminations." Following Wilson's own three-part formula ("what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now"), Raphael, an AA member writing under a pseudonym, observes that "what [Bill W.] used to be like scarcely exists outside...the account he first gave in Alcoholics Anonymous and then repeated often." Raphael seeks to distinguish Bill W., cofounder of AA and the Twelve Steps, from Bill Wilson, who "closely guarded his private life during his public career, even as he seemed to bare his soul at AA meetings." Throughout his life, Wilson battled depression, smoked heavily, and had a reputation as a womanizer. Later in life, he participated in LSD research and promoted alternative therapies for alcoholism. As Raphael describes Wilson's life, he traces parallels in the evolution of AA from its origins in the Oxford Group, a religious lay movement, to a worldwide self-help organization of alcoholics helping alcoholics. Both books, while important contributions to the growing literature on Bill W., are supplementary purchases for collections on drug and alcohol abuse."—<i>Library Journal</i><br /><br />"Raphael, a pseudonymous Alcoholics Anonymous member who celebrated his thirteenth year of sobriety while writing this book, has not attempted a scholarly biography, though he has consulted archival collections and interviewed a variety of persons. Rather, he aimed to produce a book of "personal impressions and ruminations," and he has generally succeeded. Readers familiar with one or more of the widely differing biographies of Bill W. will find some additional material and some thought-provoking views here. Raphael shows that Bill was influenced by William James' classic study The Varieties of Religious Experience and that he was a lively, egotistic man rather than the saintly figure so often presented by some in A.A. In Raphael's pages, Bill becomes someone to spend an enjoyable evening with, though the urge to give him a kick in the pants might occasionally arise. Raphael's summary view of Bill is that he was intensely aware of his own shortcomings and intensely seeking self-awareness and spiritual discipline."—<i>Booklist</i></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/14">Biography</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-trim field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 x 9</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">224</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:19:44 +0000Anonymous817 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressThe Serpent in the Cuphttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/serpent-cup
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October, 1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-081-9</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October, 1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-082-6</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">25.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Reynolds, David S., and Debra J. Rosenthal, eds.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Temperance in American Literature</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/default_images/um_press_default_cover_0.jpg?itok=mE80JCdm" alt="" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">We are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to view up to 20% of the book. If this title is active in the program, you will find the Google Preview button in the sidebar below.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">edited by David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/serpent-cup" st_title="The Serpent in the Cup" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 10/29/1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/58">American Literature</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">320</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:18:44 +0000Anonymous734 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressSobering Taleshttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/sobering-tales
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April, 1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-064-2</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April, 1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-065-9</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">25.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">O&#039;Reilly, Edmund B.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9781558490642.jpg?itok=8V3q7NbR" width="66" height="100" alt="[node-title]" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">We are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to view up to 20% of the book. If this title is active in the program, you will find the Google Preview button in the sidebar below., reviewing a previous edition or volume</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Edmund B. O&#039;Reilly</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/sobering-tales" st_title="Sobering Tales" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 04/23/1997</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/51">American Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">256</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:18:40 +0000Anonymous721 at http://www.umass.edu/umpressThe Mask of Fictionhttp://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/mask-fiction
<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-cloth field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">July, 1989</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (cloth):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-0-87023-674-7</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-cloth field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (cloth) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-paper field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">October, 2009</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-isbn-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">ISBN (paper):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">978-1-55849-751-1</div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-price-paper field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Price (paper) $:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">29.95</div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-author-blurb field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Professor of English at University of Alabama, John W. Crowley is the author of <i>George Cabot Lodge</i> and<i> The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells</i>.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Crowley, John W.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Essays on W. D. Howells</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><img class="image-style-thumbnail" src="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/covers/9781558497511.jpg?itok=EAJBTPkx" width="68" height="100" alt="" /></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">W. D. Howells (1837-1920) occupies a peculiar position in our current literary history. Situated on the periphery, he is one of whose "marginality" seems, nevertheless, to be a necessary counterpart to the "centrality" of other writers--such as his friends Henry James and mark Twin--who are more securely fixed in the canon. Paradoxically, Howells has been an indispensable man in the middle, linking such binary pairs as East/West, romance/realism, elitism/socialism, patriarchal canon/women writers. <br /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-byline-main field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John W. Crowley</div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/mask-fiction" st_title="The Mask of Fiction" class="st_email_button" displayText="email"></span>
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<div class="field field-name-field-pubdate-sort field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 10/07/2009</span></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Related Subjects:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/81">Addiction Studies</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/58">American Literature</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/umpress/browse/browse-by-subject/82">Cultural Studies</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-field-reviews field-type-text-long field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">"<i>The Mask of Fiction</i> is an important contribution to an understanding of Howells the man and the artist. Sensitive and compassionate, gracefully written and moving at a brisk pace, it makes compelling reading and should appeal to scholars and general readers alike."—Ginette De B. Merrill<br /><br />"For almost two decades Crowley has probed the life and novels of Howells with a precision and understanding that has had a major critical influence. This revision of selected essays marks a new stage in his awareness and ours."—George Arms, University of New Mexico<br /><br />"These lively essays remind me that John Crowley is the best informed and most stimulating writer in the present generation of Howells interpreters and critics."—Kermit Vanderbilt, San Diego State University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-trim field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 x 9</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pages field-type-number-integer field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">284</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-illustrations field-type-text field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">2</div></div></div>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:15:47 +0000Anonymous449 at http://www.umass.edu/umpress